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Show LECTURE VL ICannot at this T i m e offer to you any Thing that I believe will be more agreeable, than an Account of fome of the principal Edifices erected by the Craft, with dome memorable Tranfactions relative thereto, extracted from the Notes of the Conftitution-book, Sec. ifr, About IGI Years after the Flood, we find the whole Race of Noah employ'd in the Vale of Shinar m fr-dldin" a City and a great Tower, in order to make to themfelves a Name, and to prevent their Difperfion. This Tower was at the Foundation a Square of half a Mile in Compafs, consisting of eight fquare Towers, built over each other, with Stairs on the Out-fide round it go-ih" up to the Obfervatory on the Top, 600 Foot high, (Which is 19 Foot higher than the highest Pyramid) whereby the Babylonians became the firft Astronomers; and in the Rooms of the grand Tower, with arched Proofs lupported by Pillars of 75 Foot high, the Idolatrous %\ orlhip of their god Belus (who was the fame with Nimrod and Bacchus of the Ancients; was perfornfd. xdty, The Pyramids of Egypt, built by the Deicen- «lants of Mitzr'aim, the fecond Son of Ham, demon* Urate the early Tafte and Genius of that ancient Kingdom, one of which Pyramids, now standing, is reckoned the frit of the feven Wonders of the World. The Marble Stones with which it is built, brought a vaft W a y , from the Quarries of Arabia, were molt of them %o Foot long, audits Foundation cover'd the Ground of -;co Foot on each Side, or 2800 Foot in Compafs, and 481 in perpendicular Height; and in perfecting it were employ'd every Day, for 20 whole Years, 360,000 Men, by fome ancient Egyptian King, for the Honour of his Empire, and at laftto become his T o m b . ;dly, The magnificent Temple of Dagon in Gaza ot the Philiflines, capacious enough to receive 5ceo People • ' its,Roof, that was artfully fupported by two man Colui: |